Broadband metasurface perfect absorber with the advantages of high absorption rate, ultra-thin thickness and easy to prepare, shows a great potential application in several fields such as thermopile infrared detectors, thermal imaging, microbolometer, and thermal photovoltaic solar energy conversion. But it is usually difficult to maintain the high absorption performance in the broadband range due to the effects of the incidence angle. In this paper, a Ti/Ge/Si3N4/SiO2/Ti mid-infrared broadband metasurface perfect absorber for infrared thermopiles is designed, and Finite Difference Time Domain simulations show that the absorber has an average absorptivity of 90.5% in the wavelength range of 8~14 μm, and the absorptivity at 8.786 μm and 13.181 μm is 99.6% and 97.5%, respectively. The relative absorption bandwidth can reach 15.9%. After theoretical calculation and analysis, this efficient absorption behavior is due to the combined effect of the plasma resonance excited by the metasurface periodic structure and the resonant mixing of the absorber's structure. After integration with a thermopile infrared detector, the temperature difference between the hot and cold ends is improved by 27%, and the device performance is effectively enhanced.
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